The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-11-29
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Amazon equipped for Il double chase.
a little to ono side stood the whipper-
in, with pack ;strainlng al their iashes
in impatience for the "lnd," while d
eopse striking one side Of the moor
was being drawn for the expected
fox. e>ssssS r.
Far away into hazy distance stretched
the fnrze.covered waste, which in
spring and autumn swassns mass OF gol-
den blossom. Now. tile inhospltable
spines showed grayly green beneath
the subdued coloring OF q February
sky, ont Of which, sonco, and again,
broke q CLEAN Of sunshine, Frightening
all as by q sudden smile that fingered
for u moment, and faded back into
quiet gravity. E
Quite a small court gathered around
Marcia as soon as we appeared upon
theSground. Iaond were the sprotesta-
tions Of, disappointment and }chagrin
that she had chosen this day, OF all
days., for driving to cover. ''Such q
shamel. .QuiteS too great pityE ;
"The best run OF the seasonl'' were
phrases repeated OH every side.
san understandable waste OF oppor-
| tunlty,' as my guv'nor has such pen--
chant for Observing" remarked little
Teddy Bolton, Of the Buffs--like my
self, Il guest ac Callerhowe who, wor-
shipping Marcia as an nnapproachable
divinity, condescended to besrow his
conversation upon mo on the palpable
suppossition that L was y being more
nearly upon his own level Of creation.
Marcia smiled coldly, and 'parried,
On answered, question or reproof, with
even more than her habitual calm dig.
nifty. There was an indef1nable change
in her 'manner-an Icy self-repression,
which, joined to an exaggerated indif.
ference to her society manifested by
Walter, who neither noticed nor ap-
preached us--an indifference bslied by
~ certain wistful pleading in his honest
blue eyes, whose glances, try as he
would to distract them, reverted contin-
Mally to Marcia's beautiful stateusque
features--wiiich lntuitively convinced
me that the crisis whence Mrs. Drew
hoped so much had been reached and
passed. only to leave pain and mlsun-
derstandlng OH one side, if not on both.
School girls are proverblally obsery-
ant, and. l was a little more.
But when the fox broke earth. and
the. yiewhalloo rang out, l had eyes
and cars for nothing but the exciting
scene before me. "A. Shaft of. sunlight
| isglsncea from a ltat&4ys Hide, ana away
streamed the pack, theirlou delighted
baying reverberating on tho air. In a
momentlour vicinity was deserted; and
man and horse were speeding through
gorse and brake, over mound and hill
lock, making for "a boundary wood
toward which the fox was heading.
A tolerably even road ran across tue
moor, and We---Marcia and followed
rs swiftly as We could in the hunts
mems wake, Until we reached an iso-
lated knoll rising abruptly from the
heath, anu crowned by three wind.
blown larches. 1t commanded a good
Wow over the surrounding country; so,
leaving tho trap with the groom, we
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